Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Don’t Count On Trump Being Inaugurated — Paul Craig Roberts

The Ruling Establishment Does Not Intend For Trump To Become President.

The latest “explosive” fake news is that “multiple US officials with
direct knowledge” told CNN that they have “classified documents” that Russia
has compromising documents on Trump that would allow them to blackmail the US
President. The documents consist of memos compiled by a former British
intelligence operative “whose past work US intelligence officials consider
credible.”

According to antiwar.com “the dossier claimed several figures in the
Trump campaign were in league with the Russian government during the campaign,
and that Russia had been conspiring with them to groom Trump as an ally for ‘at
least five years.’ It also claims exchanges of information between Trump and
the Kremlin for ‘at least eight years,’ . . . The dossier names former Trump
adviser Carter Page, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, as well as incoming
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as having personally and repeatedly met
with Kremlin officials on anti-Clinton leaks.”

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is the former Director of the Defense Intellience
Agency. If such a high level US intelligence official is repeatedly meeting
with Kremlim officials and the CIA has to learn about it from memos written by
an unidentified former British intelligent agent, the CIA is totally
incompetent.

The dossier claims that in Russian hands are videos of “wild sex
parties” staged by Trump on his numerous trips to Moscow. And it gets wilder.

The New York Times also ran with the story but did state that there was
at the present time no confirmation for the story.

Consider these three questions:

How would a former British intelligence operative get such extraordinary
documents from Russian intelligence?

If he had such documents, why would he hand them over instead of selling
them to Trump for a major fortune?

Why would such a crazy story be on CNN and in the New York Times unless
the ruling establishment intends to use it to block Trump from the presidency?

What this elevation in wild charges tells me is that the CIA’s effort to
sell Trump on the Russisn hacking did not succeed, and the CIA has escalated
its attack on the president-elect.